Weaver-Mann, Edith Blough (1905-2010)

Latest revision as of 16:12, 13 October 2011

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2010 Nov 8 p. 14

Birth date: 1905 Jul 29

text of obituary:

Edith (Blough) Weaver-Mann, 105, of Davidsville, Pa., died Oct. 26, 2010. She was born July 29, 1905, to John A. and Emma Jane (Gashaw) Blough near Johnstown.

She attended Ferndale High School, later graduating from Eastern Mennonite High School, Harrisonburg, Va., in 1926. She attended Millersville State Teachers College and taught in a public school in Lancaster. In 1928, she married U. Grant Weaver. She and Grant became involved in founding First Mennonite Church, Johnstown, where she served as primary superintendent. She also was a substitute teacher in various schools.

She and Grant moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1964. While there, she served as librarian at Bay Shore Mennonite Church and was a book reviewer on a weekly radio program. In 1977, she and Grant were privileged to tour the Holy Land, as well as Switzerland, Holland and Germany. Grant died in 1981.

She married William Mann in 1984. They had nine good years together in Sarasota and Elkhart, Ind. Bill died in 1993. She then moved to Laurel View Village, Davidsville, in 1999. She was a member of Carpenter Park Mennonite Church, Davidsville.

Survivors include a son, Herbert Weaver, and his wife, Rebecca, of Bradenton, Fla.; a daughter, Virginia Esch, and her husband, Keith, of Richmond, Ind.; two sisters, Irma Black of Arkansas and Ruth Stoltzfus of Lancaster; a brother, Merle, of Davidsville; two stepdaughters, Phyllis Weaver, and her husband, Mike, of Elkhart, Ind., and Carol of Goshen, Ind.; a stepson, Donald Mann, and his wife, Jackie, of Elkhart; nine grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren, step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, two sisters and a stepson.

Memorial services were in the chapel at Laurel View Village.